A7V133 Questions

[bigal]

Newbie here, be kind. I am building a system based on an ASUS A7V133 motherboard with a 1 GHz T'Bird AXIA CPU.

1. What is the voltage setting for this CPU? I haven't been able to find it on the AMD site.

2. What are the JP13 and JP14 jumpers used for that exist near the Chassis intrusion and IR connectors?

3. Is it best to use the jumperless method to set FSB and voltages or set them with jumpers? I intend to run the CPU at it's rated speed at first, no O'Cing.

Thanks for any information that can be provided.

 

[Boonesmi]

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the link above shows how to read on the cpu itself what the core voltage should be. most likely 1.75


i prefer jumperless for both overclocked and not overclocked a7v133's but if i overclock i always set the core voltage with the 4 jumpers on the board itself (leave bios at "default" core voltage and leave all the jumpers and dipswitches set for jumperfree.

 

[Boonesmi]

oops forgot your other question....

jp13/14 if both set on 1-2 it makes your extra promise ide ports just standard ata 100 ide
if set on 2-3 it makes the promise ports raid.

 

[Jorrit]

probably wise to download the 1005 bios from the german asus site. it fixes the 686b southbridge problem. works out great for me.

 

[Jorrit]

oh, and also connect your primary hd to the promise connector after installing windows and the promise drivers. although the via controller is also ata100 the promise is much faster. (win2k boots in 65 secs instead of 75).

 

[Scorp]

jorrrit u sure that swapping to the promise controller after installing win2k increases performance? coz i've been running win2k primary hdd on the primaray ata 100 channel for like 2 months now, will it work if i switched now to the promise controller??

 

[Jorrit]

no problem whatsoever. after you install the newest promise drivers (can be downloaded from asus) you can simply plug the ide cable into the promise controller; make sure the 'load promise bios' is enabled in the bios.